Owner claims $6K custom-made diamond ring found in US sewer
Posted Apr 12, 2012 03:32:27 PM.
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BOISE, Idaho – A woman says she believes in miracles after sewer workers found the $6,000 diamond wedding ring she accidentally flushed down the toilet 18 months ago.
Mechelle Rieger claimed the seven-diamond ring Thursday morning at City Hall, bringing with her a photo and the March 2001 appraisal from the jeweler that made it.
Rieger thanked city workers Travis Fleming and Carey Knight, who spotted the ring along with loose coins in a filtration basket while doing routine maintenance last week.
Rieger said she freaked out and “just started screaming” when the ring accidentally fell in the toilet. She says there was more screaming involved when she got a voice message from a friend relaying the news about a ring being found in the sewer in her old neighbourhood.
